... when this idiotic directive had been issued, you can be damned sure I would have responded with a directive of my own. It would have read something like this:
I'll shit in any damn toilet I have access to, and I won't itemize the usage of it. If you wish to send a toilet monitor up here to keep track of the usage, feel free; I'm not playing games up here, I'm risking my life for science. In Short: Go F^kc Yourself
...many museums and archives are more concerned about making profits...
Many museums are in fact businesses, not charities, or public services, so this is understandable.
Many still think they own the copyrights...
Now you know what posession is 9/10th of the law is all about !
While I agree that it is travesty to have such significant aspects of the human cultural experience privately held, it is difficult to imagine what type of system could be put in place to ensure unfettered access to the public. Don't dismiss the scale of such an undertaking. Do you really want your government responsible for this when they struggle to keep the pot-holes filled. I prefer to keep government as limited as possible, everything they get involved with turns into a stinking pile of excrement - I'd rather that didn't happen with the works of DaVinci, or Rafael, of Monet.
Great point. I'm consistantly amazed how so many American complain vociforously about high fuel prices while driving the least efficient vehicles on the planet. You have to search to find that kind of shitty milage in a European car. My in-laws recently purchased a 3 year old vehicle that averages 43 MPG; on the motorways it gets 60 MPG at 70 MPH. It cost them £9,000, it's a nice vehicle with plenty of passenger and cargo space.
...they are teaching them to apply critical thinking skills....
If only that were the case. Most teachers don't have this facility, and so are incapable of teaching it. Most children won't ever learn these skills, and actually couldn't care less about them. Sad, but true.
As a result, can't we just stick to basic education, at least until a reasonable age, say 16, where the dumbasses who are destined for a life on the dole start skipping school most of the time ?
It's about time that publicly funded research make it back into the public domain. I'm sick and tired of my tax money going to enriching institutions of higher learning, and big Pharma (and other corporations) and seeing nothing in return but more generally useless, largely unnecessary, and unjustifiably expensive drugs, not to mention huge salaries.
Very good point. All these people who continuously turn their machines off and on are probably using MORE power than people who leave their 'puters running all the time.
Remember, energy usage is not just about the electricity to power the damn thing; it also includes manufacturing, and distribution costs, which (while reflected in the purchase price) are always conveniently ignored.
With the modern hibernate/sleep/whatever functionality available, my bet is that it's cheaper to leave it running than to continuously cycle it on and off, since the failure rate of most of the component parts is directly proportional to power cycling.
In the old days, a music publisher could charge a premium for copies of music (printed music, or audio productions) because they had relatively significant upfront costs, and a relatively easy means of controlling distribution, and reproduction. They got paid for taking that risk, and for controlling a scarce resource (the printed/engraved copies), and they got paid well.
Guess what (you greedy bastards), the risk has been mitigated with the advent of digital distribution. Your ability to control the scarce resource is disappearing. That's how capitalism works (well, that's how it's supposed to work anyway)
Think of all the wanna-be Britney Spears who awoke in their dingy trailer homes, wondered who their father was, and then sat happily crunching away on their Lucky Charms at the combination breakfast-nook/Counter-top/Fold-away bed. Maybe it's better they don't get exploited after all.
You concerns could be trivially addressed by removing the numbers from the questions, and shuffling their order before posting.
So trivial is this in fact, that I doubt many are stupid enough to rely upon the order of the questions as a 'key' identifying the owner of that copy. A more likely means would be to look for certain word pairs, or the frequency of certains words, or something along those lines which would be extraordinarily difficult to detect without anaylsing many licensed copies. Your concerns are interesting to consider, however.
P.S. You might be interested in reading a little about India and its endemic problems before you start spouting off about issues you either know nothing about, or simply refuse to acknowledge. I've left off several very good Wikipedia articles, since I anticipate your (misguided) objections to its use as a source.
Actually, I have indeed visited India, and travelled around quite extensively. My opinion of India is shared by almost every rational person I have ever met who has also travelled there. In fact it's a topic of conversation far more frequently than you may expect. Once people learn that I have been to Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kanpur, Jaipur, or some of the other smaller places, they always lower their voices and say words to the effect of, "Wasn't it absolutely filthy", to which I always respond, "disgusting, I'd never go back".
I stand by my statement that these vehicle will accelerate the death rate. I agree that the current standard of transport safety is appalling, all I'm saying is that these vehicles will merely add to the problem. They will also add to an already chronic air pollution problem.
To address your concerns about my mental health, I can assure you I'm quite fine, although perhaps a little cynical when it comes to reading about a disposable automobile. I guess when you treat your own countrymen as disposable, you'd only expect that they drive in such vehicles. I'm sure you won't see any politicians, or successfull businessmen driving such things, they prefer safer modes of transport.
After India has addressed the issues of its huge impoverished population, its amazingly polluting industry, it's sanitation, and birth control problems, perhaps the world will have a better opinion about it. Until then It will remain, despite what you may think, a shit-hole.
1.) It's copyright by the University of Minnesota. Uptight Wankers !
2.) If it's a pre-requisite for a federal job, it should be issued by the Fed, and therefore in the public domain.
3.)You're foolish for not obeying the take-down notice.
4.)You're even more foolish if you don't immediately publish the entire document on Wikileaks.
It seems that India has finally started to address their population issue. This will speed up the death rate through both fatal collisions, and increased pollution.
Congratulations India, you're on track to zero population growth within a decade. Believe me, I think it's long overdue.
Now, if you could just adopt some basic sanitation, your country might actually become pleasant ------ in about 100 years.
... scientists reveal that drinking clean water is better than drinking polluted water, and eating uncontaminated food is better than eating food laden with pesticides or other poisons or carcinogens.
It's this type of unintuitive research that I'm proud to sponsor with my tax dollars.
I can't wait to read the upcoming report on the relationship between caloric consumption and obesity. I'm panting in anticipation of the latest research into the apparent connection between teenage intercourse and teenage pregnancy.
Most experienced developers (that use lower level languages like C/C++), do indeed know how to write multi-threaded applications, DESPITE the poor support for doing so by the compiler. This is usually done through threading libraries, rather than native language features supported by the language preprocessor and compiler and linker.
This is not actually the problem. The problem is that most applications simply don't need to be multi-threaded, and in fact adding threading frequently introduces more problems than it solves. Most multi-threaded applications would actually perform better as multi-instance applications. where each instance runs on a seperate core, in virtual isolation.
It seems to me that mutli-core systems facilitate this paradigm with almost no effort required by the developer. As it should be.
The OP obviosuly wishes more software projects were like Vista.
You know, announced before it was begun, released before it was stable, out of date before it was fixed, over-priced, under-supported, and just plain crap !
Me, I'll choose evolution over revolution because it seems to work well for other complex systems too.
Slashdot Mirror
... a recent study found that all autistic children breath air.
Things aren't always as simple as people love to imagine they are.
However, they usually are.
... when this idiotic directive had been issued, you can be damned sure I would have responded with a directive of my own. It would have read something like this:
I'll shit in any damn toilet I have access to, and I won't itemize the usage of it. If you wish to send a toilet monitor up here to keep track of the usage, feel free; I'm not playing games up here, I'm risking my life for science. In Short: Go F^kc Yourself
...that it's perfectly safe to operate your wireless devices inside an airplane, as long as you're paying the airline for the pleasure.
Maybe the recent collapse...
...many museums and archives are more concerned about making profits...
...
Unlikely, as will be discussed below.
Many museums are in fact businesses, not charities, or public services, so this is understandable.
Many still think they own the copyrights
Now you know what posession is 9/10th of the law is all about !
While I agree that it is travesty to have such significant aspects of the human cultural experience privately held, it is difficult to imagine what type of system could be put in place to ensure unfettered access to the public. Don't dismiss the scale of such an undertaking. Do you really want your government responsible for this when they struggle to keep the pot-holes filled. I prefer to keep government as limited as possible, everything they get involved with turns into a stinking pile of excrement - I'd rather that didn't happen with the works of DaVinci, or Rafael, of Monet.
Sure they could - after a few weeks anyway - your neck would be twice the width of your head.
Great point. I'm consistantly amazed how so many American complain vociforously about high fuel prices while driving the least efficient vehicles on the planet. You have to search to find that kind of shitty milage in a European car. My in-laws recently purchased a 3 year old vehicle that averages 43 MPG; on the motorways it gets 60 MPG at 70 MPH. It cost them £9,000, it's a nice vehicle with plenty of passenger and cargo space.
...they are teaching them to apply critical thinking skills....
If only that were the case. Most teachers don't have this facility, and so are incapable of teaching it. Most children won't ever learn these skills, and actually couldn't care less about them. Sad, but true.
As a result, can't we just stick to basic education, at least until a reasonable age, say 16, where the dumbasses who are destined for a life on the dole start skipping school most of the time ?
Why not simply ban refrigerant systems in autos. Back in my day we just rolled down the windows and sweated a bit.
It's about time that publicly funded research make it back into the public domain. I'm sick and tired of my tax money going to enriching institutions of higher learning, and big Pharma (and other corporations) and seeing nothing in return but more generally useless, largely unnecessary, and unjustifiably expensive drugs, not to mention huge salaries.
Very good point. All these people who continuously turn their machines off and on are probably using MORE power than people who leave their 'puters running all the time.
Remember, energy usage is not just about the electricity to power the damn thing; it also includes manufacturing, and distribution costs, which (while reflected in the purchase price) are always conveniently ignored.
With the modern hibernate/sleep/whatever functionality available, my bet is that it's cheaper to leave it running than to continuously cycle it on and off, since the failure rate of most of the component parts is directly proportional to power cycling.
In the old days, a music publisher could charge a premium for copies of music (printed music, or audio productions) because they had relatively significant upfront costs, and a relatively easy means of controlling distribution, and reproduction. They got paid for taking that risk, and for controlling a scarce resource (the printed/engraved copies), and they got paid well.
Guess what (you greedy bastards), the risk has been mitigated with the advent of digital distribution. Your ability to control the scarce resource is disappearing. That's how capitalism works (well, that's how it's supposed to work anyway)
Think of all the wanna-be Britney Spears who awoke in their dingy trailer homes, wondered who their father was, and then sat happily crunching away on their Lucky Charms at the combination breakfast-nook/Counter-top/Fold-away bed. Maybe it's better they don't get exploited after all.
You concerns could be trivially addressed by removing the numbers from the questions, and shuffling their order before posting.
So trivial is this in fact, that I doubt many are stupid enough to rely upon the order of the questions as a 'key' identifying the owner of that copy. A more likely means would be to look for certain word pairs, or the frequency of certains words, or something along those lines which would be extraordinarily difficult to detect without anaylsing many licensed copies. Your concerns are interesting to consider, however.
P.S. You might be interested in reading a little about India and its endemic problems before you start spouting off about issues you either know nothing about, or simply refuse to acknowledge.
I've left off several very good Wikipedia articles, since I anticipate your (misguided) objections to its use as a source.
Here are a few links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_India
http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11751397
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSDEL218894
http://www.gits4u.com/envo/envo4.htm#The%20most%20polluted%20places%20in%20India
Actually, I have indeed visited India, and travelled around quite extensively. My opinion of India is shared by almost every rational person I have ever met who has also travelled there. In fact it's a topic of conversation far more frequently than you may expect. Once people learn that I have been to Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kanpur, Jaipur, or some of the other smaller places, they always lower their voices and say words to the effect of, "Wasn't it absolutely filthy", to which I always respond, "disgusting, I'd never go back".
I stand by my statement that these vehicle will accelerate the death rate. I agree that the current standard of transport safety is appalling, all I'm saying is that these vehicles will merely add to the problem. They will also add to an already chronic air pollution problem.
To address your concerns about my mental health, I can assure you I'm quite fine, although perhaps a little cynical when it comes to reading about a disposable automobile. I guess when you treat your own countrymen as disposable, you'd only expect that they drive in such vehicles. I'm sure you won't see any politicians, or successfull businessmen driving such things, they prefer safer modes of transport.
After India has addressed the issues of its huge impoverished population, its amazingly polluting industry, it's sanitation, and birth control problems, perhaps the world will have a better opinion about it. Until then It will remain, despite what you may think, a shit-hole.
1.) It's copyright by the University of Minnesota. Uptight Wankers !
2.) If it's a pre-requisite for a federal job, it should be issued by the Fed, and therefore in the public domain.
3.)You're foolish for not obeying the take-down notice.
4.)You're even more foolish if you don't immediately publish the entire document on Wikileaks.
Thanks for listening.
...next thing you know, they'll be selling houses made out of cardboard ...
They already live in cardboard 'houses'.
It seems that India has finally started to address their population issue. This will speed up the death rate through both fatal collisions, and increased pollution.
Congratulations India, you're on track to zero population growth within a decade.
Believe me, I think it's long overdue.
Now, if you could just adopt some basic sanitation, your country might actually become pleasant ------ in about 100 years.
Damn, another good post shot down in flames.
I'll try to do better next time.
...but I suspect (as he seems to) that there's something more missing
Hmm, lack of good weather ? lack of proximity to a major city ? Safe bridges ?
Or perhaps it has to do with existing attributes. a declining population ? Perhaps a violent crime rate almost twice the national average ?
Maybe the self serving politicians might get to work on these (latter) issues, but it's unlikely.
I don't expect them to do anything about the weather.
Oakland, you insensitive clod !
... scientists reveal that drinking clean water is better than drinking polluted water, and eating uncontaminated food is better than eating food laden with pesticides or other poisons or carcinogens.
It's this type of unintuitive research that I'm proud to sponsor with my tax dollars.
I can't wait to read the upcoming report on the relationship between caloric consumption and obesity. I'm panting in anticipation of the latest research into the apparent connection between teenage intercourse and teenage pregnancy.
Most experienced developers (that use lower level languages like C/C++), do indeed know how to write multi-threaded applications, DESPITE the poor support for doing so by the compiler. This is usually done through threading libraries, rather than native language features supported by the language preprocessor and compiler and linker.
This is not actually the problem. The problem is that most applications simply don't need to be multi-threaded, and in fact adding threading frequently introduces more problems than it solves. Most multi-threaded applications would actually perform better as multi-instance applications. where each instance runs on a seperate core, in virtual isolation.
It seems to me that mutli-core systems facilitate this paradigm with almost no effort required by the developer. As it should be.
...what is wrong with using firewood for heat? ...
It's called smoke. it's not very nice to breath.
The OP obviosuly wishes more software projects were like Vista.
You know, announced before it was begun, released before it was stable, out of date before it was fixed, over-priced, under-supported, and just plain crap !
Me, I'll choose evolution over revolution because it seems to work well for other complex systems too.